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VPBE
Latest PBE Patch	August 6, 2014
Highlights
Summoner's Rift visual upgrade Gnar, the Missing Link
Glossary
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← Previous	V4.14
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Below you will find a comprehensive list of new features, skins and balance changes that are currently active in the PBE, relative to the live server. These changes are tentative and are all subject to change. Please do not replicate this information elsewhere on the site.

An entry that has been struck-through is a change that has been reverted during the current cycle or a change that did not go live from the previous cycle. These changes may return at a later date, but will be removed from this article if they have not been seen for one whole cycle.

V4.14 Forecast

There's no forecast at the moment.

Please note that V4.14 will be the patch used at the World Championship, but supposedly the patch immediately afterwards will be beast!

New Skins in the Store

The following skins have been added to the store:

• Headhunter Caitlyn
• Dino Gnar (975 RP)
• Riot Kayle (975 RP)
• Arcade Miss Fortune (1350 RP)

The following summoner icons have been added:

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Bom Bomb Icon.jpg

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PVP.net

Patcher client

Game client

Patcher and Landing Page

• Visually upgraded.

Match History

• New layout.

Replay System

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  Replay system

  The Replay system has been pulled from the PBE, but it's still in development.

Ascension

• A Shurima-related event has been teased.
• To say it will involve Nasus and Renekton would be telling.
• The string "Ascension" has appeared in the list of game modes within the game files.
  • According to S@20, "Map8" corresponds with Dominion so it could be a Featured Mode for Dominion (although "Odin" also appears separately).
• Recent champion, Braum, foreshadows a possible visit to a far away land (Shurima).
• The following (interesting) game stats have appeared within the Ascension game files:
  • Combat Score
  • Consumable Purchased
  • Items Purchased
  • Longest Time Spent Living
  • Unreal Kills
  • Total Crowd Control Dealt
  • Was AFK after failed surrender
• The following in-game events have appeared:
  • Something to do with Xerath
  • Ward Neutralized
  • Ward Captured

League of Legends VPBE

Ward Pings

• Assets for "Friendly Ward here" and "Enemy Ward here" pings have been added, but are not yet implemented.

Summoner Rift VU

General

• Complete visual overhaul to field, map, minions and monsters.
• Purple Team changed to Red Team.
• Cleaned up a lot of the terrain (so that the widths of the visuals match the width of the mesh).
  • This is particularly noticeable in Red-side jungle.
• Fog of war upgrade - fog is darker and the fade between fog and non-fog is now more abrupt/crisp (it's not a gradual fade).
• General bug fixes.
• Camera angle adjusted to be more similar to Howling Abyss (higher angled, less perspective).
  • This should make the difference between playing up and down less significant.
• Large and Epic Jungle monsters now show their current health value above their health bar.
• Bottom and top lane brushes are now centered between their respective towers (previously off-centered by ~450 units).
• Ambient critters have been added the map.
• New minion and monster icons.

Baron Nashor

Dragon

Blue Sentinel

Sentries

Red Brambleback

Cinderlings

Gromp

Greater Murk Wolf

Lesser Murk Wolves

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Crimson Razorbeak

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Lesser Razorbeaks

Ancient Krug

Lesser Krug

Red Caster

Red Melee

Red Super

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Red Cannon

Blue Caster

Blue Melee

Blue Super

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Blue Cannon

Jungle

• The Ancient Golem Ancient Golem has been replaced with the Blue Sentinel (a golem) and his Lizards Lizards with Sentries (monolithic creatures).
• The Big Golem Big Golem/Golem Golem have been replaced with Ancient Krug/Krug (similar to Pokemon's Avalugg, only rock-colored).
• The Wraith Wraith/Lesser Wraith Lesser Wraiths have been replaced with Crimson Razorbeak/Razorbeaks (large birds).
• The Wight Wight has been replaced with Gromp (a frog-walrus hybrid).
• The Lizard Elder Lizard Elder has been replaced with the Red Brambleback (an ent-like creature) and his Lizard Lizard with little Cinderlings.

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Baron Nashor

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Dragon

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Blue Sentinel and his Sentries

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Red Brambleback and his Cinderlings

Gromp.jpg

Gromp

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Greater Murk Wolf and lesser Murk Wolves

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Crimson Razorbeak and lesser Razorbeaks

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Ancient Krug and a lesser Krug

Dragon Dragon

• When Dragon first takes flight, he knocks back surrounding enemies.
• Dragon's basic attacks are similar to Viktor's Death Ray, except that trail follows a specific target (can be curvy).
• Every third attack is ground-targeted ball of fire that deals damage in an off-centered explosion upon hitting the floor. Targets outside of the point of impact take only 50% damage.

Baron Nashor

• When Baron spawns, he knocks back surrounding units, wards and targetable traps. He retains his ability to knock back wards and traps while alive.
• Whenever Baron damages an enemy he applies a number of Corrosion stacks, which reduces armor and magic resist by 0.5 per stack. Basic attacks apply 1 stack.
• He has the ability to reduce his attacker's attack damage by 50%, but this is only used on physical attackers.
• New abilities:
  1. Baron Nashor rears back and then spits a number of balls of acid at multiple target locations, damaging enemies and leaving multiple persistent areas for a short duration that deals periodic damage and rapidly applies Corrosion stacks. This is ability is used on melee ranged attackers.
  2. A wide Death Ray-like attack that damages everyone it hits and rapidly applies lots of Corrosion stacks. This ability is used on ranged attackers.
  3. Baron slams his claws into the target location, dealing damage and briefly knocking back enemies hit. This is ability is used on attackers in melee range. Will be used to interrupt channels.
  4. A tentacle erupts from the ground at the target location, dealing damage and knocking up enemies hit. This ability is used on ranged attackers. Will be used to interrupt channels.
  5. Summons spikes of impassible terrain starting behind him and gradually fanning out both clockwise and counterclockwise, shunting enemies to the front half of his pit. damaging enemies they hit.

Champions

Gnar, the Missing Link

• New champion.

Elise

• General
  • Attack range in human form reduced to 500 from 550.
• Spider Swarm
  • Base health reduced to 40 from 80.
• Neurotoxin
  • Cast range reduced to 550 from 625.
  • Cast range is now calculated edge-to-edge instead of center-to-center.

Gragas

• Drunken Rage
  • Base damage decreased to 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 from 20 / 50 / 80 / 110 / 140.

Kassadin

• Riftwalk
  • Mana cost increased to 100 from 75.
  • Empowerment stack duration increased to 20 seconds from 12.

Kayle

• General
  • Attack speed per level increased to 2.5% from 2.2%.

Kog'Maw

• General
  • Base movement speed decreased to 325 from 330.
• Living Artillery
  • Bonus base damage to champions reduced to 100% % from 125% at all ranks.
• Void Ooze
  • New particle effects.

Lulu

• Whimsy
  • Tooltip updated to match the actual polymorph duration of 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 rather than 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5.

Maokai

• Twisted Advance
  • Damage reduced to 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 (+3% per 100 AP) from 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15 (+4% per 100 AP).
• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Maximum duration implemented at 10 seconds changed from no limit.

Morgana

• Black Shield
  • Shield strength reduced to 70 / 140 / 210 / 280 / 350 from 95 / 160 / 225 / 290 / 355.
• Soul Shackles
  • Initial and stun damage reduced to 150 / 225 / 300 from 175 / 250 / 325.

Nidalee

• General
  • Support tag removed.

Orianna

• General
  • Base attack damage lowered to 38 from 44.

Rengar

• Thrill of the Hunt
  • Cooldown increased to 150 / 110 / 70 from 120 / 95 / 70.

Twitch

• Base AD increased to 49 from 46.

Vel'Koz

• Lifeform Disintegration Ray
  • Base damage adjusted to 350 / 475 / 600 reduced to from 500 / 700 / 900.
  • AP scaling increased to (+150% AP) from (+60% AP).
    • Damage breaks even with the old base damage at 222 / 277 / 333 AP.
  • Slow reduced to 15% from 20%.
  • Slow now stacks up to 5 times.

Ziggs

• Bouncing Bomb
  • Mana cost increased to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90.

Zed

• Living Shadow </s
  • Energy cost reduced to 40 / 30 / 20 / 10 / 0 from 40 / 35 / 30 / 25 / 20.
  • Cooldown reduced to 18 / 16.5 / 15 / 13.5 / 12 from 18 / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14.

Items

Entropy

• Active slow duration reduced to 2 seconds from 2.5.

Head of Kha'Zix

• Now grants Special Bonus: Rengar has increased vision range while in brush.

Muramana (experimental)

To make testing Muramana easier, it will now transform immediately upon purchasing Manamune.

• Attack damage increased to 25 from 20.
• Toggle removed.
• New Passive: Your basic attacks and single-target physical abilities deal 7 / 15 / 30 / 60 bonus true damage and you gain 0 / 10 / 20 / 30 % bonus attack speed, based on the number of Azure stacks.
• New Active: You expend 150 mana to gain a stack of Azure for 9 seconds. During those 9 seconds you can pay an additional 150 mana to gain an additional stack of Azure, stacking up to 3 times (does not refresh the duration). After obtaining 3 stacks or after the 9 seconds, this item goes on cooldown for 20 seconds.
• New Passive: Your basic attacks and single-target physical abilities deal 10 bonus true damage. This is increased to 10 (+2% maximum mana) true damage while Azure is active.
• New Active - Azure: You spend 60 mana to gain 10 stacks of Azure for 9 seconds. Each stack of Azure grants 1% attack speed. During those 9 seconds you can repeatedly activate Azure with each cast doubling your current Azure stacks for double the current cost. Concurrent casts do not refresh the duration and there is no upper limit on stacks. After the 9 seconds, this item goes on cooldown for 30 seconds.
  • Be wary that attack speed is capped at 2.5 - don't keep activating just because you can.

Sanguine Blade

• Attack damage increased to 45 from 40.
• Life steal is now unique.
• Life steal reduced to 10% from 15%.
• Stacking AD/Life steal passive removed.
• Stacking passive duration increased to 8 seconds from 4.
• Now grants The Bloodthirster's over-healing passive.

Runes, Masteries and Summoner Spells

Nothing to report.

Upcoming

The following changes have been teased by Riot, but are not yet active on the PBE. For upcoming content that doesn't have any immediate release date, please see: Future Content.

• Riot has announced the creation of a new Master Tier in ranked divisions.
  • The Master Tier occupies the same LP bracket as Challenger Tier, but has no player limit.
  • This is accompanied by a rework to Challenger Tier: every 24 hours, the system recalculates the top 200 players and 50 teams in LP, and promotes them to Challenger Tier, demoting those who have fallen below the top selection to Master Tier. Players and teams in Challenger Tier do not have tier immunity.

• Riot has disclosed that Soraka's gameplay update, Sion's full relaunch and Viktor's gameplay update are close enough to release that you should reconsider purchasing them if you likely to put-off by any changes, as Riot will no longer be issuing free refunds on account of balance changes. Fiora was previously listed here, but Viktor has replaced her.

Lissandra

• Innate
  • Experimental new defensive passive.

Nunu

• Consume
  • Buffs changed/added to suit the new jungle monsters.

Soraka

• Reworked into a dedicated healer. She will still be star/astral-themed.
• New passive.
• Q is no longer a point-blank AOE.
  • Landing her Q will empower the amount healed by Astral Blessing. Q also in some way regenerates Soraka's health.
• Astral Blessing now costs health.
  • The base healing to cost ratio is not particularly favourable, adding an incentive to landing Q.
  • You cannot off-set the need to land Q by buying ability power (implying little-to-no scaling on the base healing).
  • The health cost is not off-set by building health (i.e. percentage cost). This is to prevent purchasing health being required.
• Her silence has been reworked and the cooldown increased.
  • It still replenishes mana on allied cast.
• Wish's base healing reduced and the amount healed based on missing health increased.

Urgot

These changes have been confirmed as simply to tide Urgot over until the resources are available for a full visual upgrade and rework. P.S. Urgot is next in the queue after Sion for the Relaunch Team's full attention and Sion is currently at the front of that queue.

• General
  • New recommended items.
• Stats
  • Basic attack missile speed increased to 1600 from 1300.
• Acid Hunter
  • Now checks for Noxian Corrosive Charge at both the start and end of Acid Hunter cast.
  • Mana cost increased to 50 from 40.
  • Now refunds 25 mana if it scores the kill.
• Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
  • Bonus resistances are now granted instantly, instead of after 0.25 seconds.
  • Switching positions no longer forces Urgot's camera to move (untested, but assumed to only affect unlocked camera).
  • Gains the ability to ignore unit collision for 1 second upon completion.
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 / 110 / 100 seconds from 120 at all rank.
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 from 120.

The Final Boss Approaches

• Non-English versions of the The Final Boss Approaches teaser have "Veigar" in the file name .
• Based on previous hints about the next Ultimate skin: it is highly unlikely that this skin will be Ultimate-tier.

Spirit of the Spectral Wraith, Spirit of the Ancient Golem and Spirit of the Elder Lizard

• Rename to suit the new jungle monsters.

References

Patch History